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"La vertu maitresse d'aujourd'hui est la spontaneite resolue, reglee par les principes interieurs et les disciplines volontairement acceptees."
"Musiciens d'aujourd'hui," by Romain Rolland. Craven thought he was disappointed. There was no revelation for him in that. He held the book on his knee, and wondered what he had expected to find, what type of book. What special line of reading was Lady Sellingworth's likely to be?
Vambéry, La Turquie d'aujourd'hui et d'avant Quarante Ans, p. 32. Cooper, op. cit., pp. 48-49. On this point of comfort v. luxury, see especially Sir Bampfylde Fuller, "East and West: A Study of Differences," Nineteenth Century and After, November, 1911. L. Bertrand, op. cit., 145-147; J. Chailley, Administrative Problems of British India, pp. 138-139.
An old French traveler writes: "J'ai vu dans le trésor d'Ispahan les vetements de Tamerlan; ils ne different en rien de ceux d'aujourd'hui." Ethnology, the natural sciences, and last, but not least, the history of technical art are here set face to face with great problems.
Stephen Pearce que j'ai trouve chez lui; c'est un homme parfaitement comme il faut; il m'a recu bien cordialement et il m'a invite a diner demain. J'ai dine chez Mrs. Leslie hier et j'ai passe tout le tantot d'aujourd'hui chez Lewes qui habite une fort belle maison a cinq minutes d'ici.
I. e., the increase of self-government granted India by Britain as a result of the Montagu-Chelmsford Report. E. Bevan, "The Reforms in India," The New Europe, January 29, 1920. Vambéry, La Turquie d'aujourd'hui et d'avant Quarante Ans, p. 58. The assembly of religious notables. A. H. Lybyer, "The Turkish Parliament," Proceedings of the American Political Science Association, Vol.
Last but not least there are growing symptoms of social unrest and revolutionary agitation, which we will examine in the next chapter. Vambéry, La Turquie d'aujourd'hui et d'avant Quarante Ans, p. 13. I. e. the priestly class. Vambéry, La Turquie d'aujourd'hui et d'avant Quarante Ans, p. 15. Vambéry, La Turquie d'aujourd'hui et d'avant Quarante Ans, p. 51.
'Thank you, said Vandeloup, taking the heavy volume and looking at the title; 'French, I see! I'm sure it will be pleasant reading. The title of the book was 'Les Empoisonneurs d'Aujourd'hui, par MM. Prevol et Lebrun', and it had only been published the previous year; so as he turned over the leaves carelessly, M. Vandeloup caught sight of a name which he knew.
What led him to be suspicious was the curious resemblance the appearance of this young man had to that of a criminal described in the 'Les Empoisonneurs d'Aujourd'hui' as having been transported to New Caledonia for the crime of poisoning his mistress.
See also Vambéry, Western Culture in Eastern Lands; General Sir T. E. Gordon, "The Reform Movement in Persia," Proceedings of the Central Asian Society, 13 March, 1907. E. G. Browne, "The Present Situation in Persia," Contemporary Review, November, 1912. Vambéry, La Turquie d'aujourd'hui et d'avant Quarante Ans, pp. 11-12.
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